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. 2023 Dec 2;23:1342. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10368-z

Table 1.

Technology categories and single technologies

Category Examples of single technologies
A) Remote health measurements (attached to older people) Measurements of vital signs or weight at home are automatically transferred to care information systems
B) Monitoring technologies Sleep, activity and nutrition monitoring
C) Technologies installed in the apartment Home condition measurements: temperature, humidity, lights, safety monitoring system at home
D) Safety-increasing solutions Wearable safety solution with GPS localisation, medicine-dispensing robot, medicine reminder, monitoring falling
E) Solutions supporting social activity Virtual peer groups and coffee groups, social robot
F) Solutions supporting rehabilitation Games activating performance, physical and memory activity solutions, exercise equipment
G) Technologies for care professionals Electronic homecare optimising system, exoskeletons, virtual homecare or consultation visits, Virtual Reality–based training
H) IoT and integration platforms Data from devices, applications and services at home are collected on a platform to be further analysed by care professional or AI